47 Seaview

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Three bay/ two and a half-storey (+ basement house) on N side of road facing the sea. It is the right one of a set of three similar buildings; with the left one being its mirror image (HB16/12/006D). Both this building and the later are set back from the street line and flank the central more prominent building (HB16/12/006E)

Hipped natural slate roof with moulded advanced eaves course with cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. A rendered and granite coped chimneystack to the right end gable with three terracotta pots. Front pitch has two dormers.

Walls are smooth rendered and painted with a platband between basement and ground floor level. Quoins to right-end of first floor only. Balcony to first floor level (see later).

Ground floor has single-storey porch to right bay. Walls as main façade with quoins. Its front cheek has a large semi-elliptical window opening. Stucco architrave comprises plain pilasters supporting a moulded head with keystone. Granite cill. It contains a pair of reproduction semicircular-headed timber windows. The spandrel is blank. The left cheek of the porch contains a semi-elliptical-headed opening with a modern timber door with plainly glazed fanlight over. Door is accessed by a central flight of external steps which fall to left and right to the basement. Steps are of granite and enclosed to either side by a rendered and painted walls with granite copings. The right cheek of the porch is completely abutted by the adjoining building (HB16/12/006G).

The remaining bays each have a 2/2 sliding sash window with granite cills. Ground floor windows have eared moulded architraves with slightly pitched heads. Those to first floor are diminished in height and have eared and lugged architraves. Balcony to first floor has decorative scrolled cast-iron parapet matching the others.

Each dormer has a pitched natural slate roof with dentilled pedimented gable, dentilled eaves and blank cheek. The front cheek has a pair of timber single-paned casements.

Basement is smooth rendered and painted. The exposed left and right bays each have a 2/2 sliding sash window (vertically divided). The left and right cheeks of the underside of steps have a modern timber door.

The left gable is abutted by the adjoining building (HB16/12/006E).

Rear elevation is all modern, it has deck access providing doors to the apartments (of no interest).

The right gable is abutted by the adjoining building (HB16/12/006G).

Setting;
The frontage is paved and enclosed by a granite dwarf wall supporting decorative loop-headed railings with Grecian palmette finials.

Historical information

Not on the 1834 OS 6” map. First cited in the large-scale c.1860 map as Albert Place, along with its two neighbours to left (HB 16/12/006D, /006E). Described in the 1861 Valuation book as measuring 9.75yds x 10.75yds by two and one-third storeys high + basement). The first survey slide shows the balcony to be supported on a cast-iron post and without dormer windows. This building suffered some damage from the bomb which gutted No 46; It was then subject to extensive refurbishment and subdivided into flats in the early 1990s.

Primary sources
1. OS town map, c.1860 (PRONI – VAL 12E/127/1/6).
2. Second valuation book, 1861 (PRONI – VAL 2B/3/65B, p.72).
3. HMBB slide 1st December 1969.
4. Information from Planning Service, Craigavon Divisional Planning Office.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

After years of dereliction, this building, with its neighbour, was subject to extensive refurbishment and subdivided into flats. The roof was replaced, the upper part of the façade rebuilt and the interior was completely renovated. Only the façade of this building remains as a feature of interest. Major bulding work has altered the character of the property and there is insufficient historic fabric remaining to justify its retention as a listed building.